A bunch of "review" videos are just a referral link to aliexpress, a slideshow of aliexpress photos, some AI thing that takes the item description and condenses the data to a few sentences and text to speech that reads the text...

Although, even with actual humans reviewing stuff, there is a very very high chance that the review is "influenced" (=paid by) the seller/manufacturer of the item.... there are only a few youtubers left, whose reviws I'd actually trust...

I really hate when the top result for something on YouTube is an obviously AI narrated video. Even weirder when I realize it halfway through because it makes a mistake no human narrator would. I feel like someone cheated me out of my time. If you can’t spare the time to actually narrate something, why should I listen to it?

Honestly that doesn’t bother me very much, so long as the script is human-written. YouTube has always had videos with TTS narration, and I’d rather be listening to that than an incomprehensible accent or $0.50 microphone.

There’s one clever channel that makes content about the Deus Ex games that uses voice synths trained on the games’s characters - which, in addition to making the narration a bit more interesting is very on-brand for a cyberpunk game.

Here’s a video. You can see that the translation from “real” JC Denton dialogue in the first few seconds to fake AI voice is surprisingly smooth (helped by the admittedly weird voice acting in the game), although there are always a few spots in the video where it breaks down (which the author usually leaves in for laughs): https://youtu.be/jDYVx3nqgxw

The David Attenboro 40k lore channels were hillarious